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The Awesome Screen gives you your Top Sites, history and bookmarks, along with the ability to search the web – all in one convenient place. Learn more about the Awesome Screen's features and how to customize it the way you like it.
How the Awesome Screen works
The Awesome Screen has panels for your Top Sites (most frequently visited sites), Bookmarks and History (sites you've visited in the past).
Access your Top Sites
Just open Firefox to have the sites you visit the most frequently right at your fingertips. This list of sites will change as your habits change.
If you'd like to make sure something always shows up here, you can pin it.
- Tap and hold on a site and then choose . You'll see a small push-pin next to the name of the site.
Search the web, your bookmarks and browsing history in one place
The Awesome Screen gets its name from the fact that you can search everything from one place.
- Tap the address bar or open a new tab and start typing. You will see sites you've bookmarked or visited before along with possible web searches. Just tap the thing you want and you're set.
Of course, if you'd rather scroll through your bookmarks or history, you can do that too.
- Just select History or Bookmarks from the Top Sites screen or a new tab.
The Awesome Screen lets you search everything (bookmarks, history, open tabs and search engines) from one place.
Tap the address bar or open a new tab and start typing. Firefox will display a list with:
- Search suggestions from your default search engine.
- Bookmarks that match your search (these will appear with a star next to it).
- Pages from your history that match your search.
- Open tabs that match your search (look for the switch to tab label)
- Search engines you can choose from at the bottom of the screen.
Just tap the option you want and you're ready to go!
- Now you can jump directly to your Search settings from the address bar. Just tap the address bar, followed by the magnifying glass from the quick search bar.
Customize the way the Awesome Screen works
Set a home page in Firefox for Android
To set a home page in Firefox, see Change the Homepage to a specific page
Rearrange, hide or set a default panel
Now you can choose which panel to see first when you start Firefox. You can also rearrange panels and hide the ones you don't use.
- Tap the button (either below the screen on some devices or at the top-right corner of the browser), then (you may need to tap first).
- Tap , and then .
- On the Home menu, tap on a panel: History, Top Sites, Bookmarks, or Reading List to see these options:
- Set as default: Choose if you want that panel to be the first thing you see when you launch Firefox for Android.
- Hide or Show: Tap if you don't want to see a panel at all. If a panel is already hidden, you can choose to unhide it.
- Change order: Tap , then either or to rearrange your panels on the home screen. The panels would appear on the home screen in the same order that they appear in this menu.
Turn on search suggestions
Turn on search suggestions to show related Google suggestions alongside your search words.
- Tap the button (either below the screen on some devices or at the top-right corner of the browser).
- Tap (you may need to tap first).
- Tap , followed by .
- Finally, check the Show search suggestions option.
Turn on search history
Turn on search history to show suggestions from your history:
- Tap the button (either below the screen on some devices or at the top-right corner of the browser).
- Then tap (you may need to tap first).
- Tap and .
- Finally, check the Show search history option.
Add search engines and choose the default one
Want to add YouTube results to your searches or use DuckDuckGo? No problem.
- Go to the site of the search engine you want to use (for example youtube.com).
- Tap and hold inside the search box and choose .
Change your default search engine
- Tap the button (either below the screen on some devices or at the top-right corner of the browser), then tap (you may need to tap first), followed by and .
- Tap the search engine that you would like to set as default and choose .
Show the URL in the address bar instead of the website name
- Tap the button (either below the screen on some devices or at the top-right corner of the browser), then tap (you may need to tap first), followed by . Then tap the setting and choose Show page address.
